In a matter of weeks, a trial will begin in the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court in Harrisburg to decide whether Pennsylvania’s school funding system meets the state’s constitutional standards. We filed this lawsuit in 2014, along with our co-counsel, the Public Interest Law Center and the law firm O’Melveny & Myers, on behalf of six Pennsylvania school districts, two statewide organizations and a group of parents. We are challenging a system that is denying thousands of schoolchildren the opportunity to fulfill their potential.

The question of how to fund public education to ensure that all students have the opportunity to learn and succeed in life is one that many states have wrestled with.